Soon you may have the displeasure of experiencing Action 52 on real Nintendo NES hardware, thanks to some sophisticated romhacking by Great Hierophant of Nerdly Pleasures Blog. Action 52 is famously terrible unlicensed game compilation of 52 “games” but its infamy has made it desirable among collectors and the real cartridge is rare and very […]
The company Strictly Limited Games is reviving a cancelled 1994 Genesis 2D shooter called “Hardcore”. They’re completing the development using original Sega Mega Drive development hardware, to preserve the authentic experience of the original Digital Illusions creation! The game is scheduled for both a digital and physical release in 2019 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, […]
Monster Boy and the Curse Kindgom just announced their official price of $39.99 and release date of November 6th 2018 via their Facebook page. The game will be released on the Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC. Some notable features according to their press page are: Full HD graphics at 60 fps: the game supports 1080p/60fps […]
Vitor Vilela is a SMW romhacker and the coder behind the SA-1 Pack, a suite of tools used by Super Mario World romhackers to add SA-1 special chip enhancements. He’s currently hard at work on a v2.0 update to the SA-1 Pack, adding new and more powerful features to the bag of tricks that romhackers […]
Borti just posted a new firmware for his open-source, N64Advanced board: https://github.com/borti4938/n64rgb/tree/master/advancedRGBmod According to Borti, the update includes some minor fixes, plus: Improved timing constraints (also for #N64RGB) New scanline method (considering neighbored lines instead of just previous or next one) Improved 480i de-interlacing The N64Advanced is one of two video kits designed by […]
Redguy has just posted another update to his SD2SNES SA-1 Firmware, focusing on slowdown and stability fixes: Reduces the amount of slowdown j-league sees when many players are on the screen. Changes snes/sa1 interfaces which may improve stability on certain consoles. Users of the existing SA-1-compatible firmware can just extract this right on top of […]
Insurrection Industries has just Tweeted details of their upcoming GameCube plug-and-play HDMI adapter, based of GCVideo. The $75 price tag includes a remote and HDMI cable. As soon as I get one in for testing, I’ll post more details. Big News! The Carby (GC digital AV adapter) has a projected release date of 9/17/2018!! It […]
A website just launched that allows you to play multiplayer SNES ROMs across the net via a web browser: https://snes.party/ I just tried it with a friend and it’s really laggy. We both have pretty fast internet connections (mine’s 900Mbps) and it was mostly unplayable for the remote player. I was the one hosting the ROM and […]
Someone just posted a 3D-printed “mini rack and pinion racing wheel” for original Xbox controllers. There were a lot of great racing games on the Xbox and I bet a “wheel” like this would be an excellent addition to some of those games: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3049220https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/979dop/xbox_rack_and_pinion_steering/ #xbox, #3dprint, #controller, #mods
Here’s an interview with Matt, creator of the new Genesis / Mega Drive game Tanglewood. During the interview, I show my playthrough of just past the first chapter of the game, recorded on real hardware!!! An audio-only version of the interview is available here. Here’s links to Matt and the game itself, as well as demo’s: https://twitter.com/bigevilboss […]
